Andre Ashon Hill is accused of selling powder and crack cocaine in the metropolitan Portland area, according to court records.

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Investigators say Hill kept and stored the drug in his Vancouver home, and used his gray 2002 BMW 745 to deliver the cocaine to customers in Oregon.

On July 28, task force members watched Hill drive off from his home and head into downtown Portland about 11:30 a.m. Portland gang enforcement officers stopped Hill's car at Southwest Stark Street and 11th Avenue.

Police searched Hill and found $716 and a plastic bag containing an off-white chunky substance in one of Hill's front pants pockets. The bag contained seven bindles of suspected crack cocaine, and two bindles of suspected powder cocaine. Officers seized the bags and a field test found the substances tested positive for cocaine. The total weight with packaging material was 37 grams, according to an affidavit filed with a federal criminal complaint.

After Hill was arrested, the Southwest Washington Safe Streets Task Force searched his home in Vancouver. Investigators seized 178 grams of powder cocaine, 51.3 grams of crack cocaine, $56,596 , two firearms and a digital scale, the affidavit says.

During an interview with investigators, Hill told Portland detectives he planned to sell the crack and powder cocaine, and has been selling cocaine since last summer. He estimated that he makes about $5,000 a month, and that the money seized from his home was money he earned from selling the drug, the affidavit says.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin, in court, described Hill as a career criminal who was on drug court supervision. "He made a mockery of that," Kerin said, noting Hall was using mushrooms while on supervision and selling cocaine.

Hill did not contest his detention during an appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland today. An arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 16.